Auctioneers, Pawnbrokers, &c.

Before obtaining an auctioneer's license, the applicant must give security by himself and two sureties, each in £500 to $2,000, for payment of all duties, all justifying. For pawnbrokers licenses only the payment of the feels required, and the license may be for a firm or individual. A pedlar's license is obtained in like manner and covers an assistant employed to aid in carrying goods, &c. Licenses are not needed by persons employed by societies to dispose of temperance, religious or moral publications, or for any one to sell Provincial Statutes, prayer books and catechisms, proclamations, gazettes, almanacs, or other documents printed or published by authority, fish, fruit and victuals and other goods, (except drugs, medicines and patent remedies) when sold by the actual maker (being a British subject and resident of the Province) or his servants or agents. Nor is a license required by tinkers, coopers, glaziers, or harness repairers, who pursue their business travelling from place to place. Nor for hucksters or persons having market stalls, &c, and complying with the local by-laws and regulations. Ferrymen a-cross the St. Lawrence between Montreal and Longueuil, Montreal &c Laprairie and Lachine and Caughnawaga, must take out licenses—not elsewhere. But this does not apply to vessels regularly cleared at the Custom House, or any privileges granted by law to any bridge, railway or road Co. No such license can be granted for more than 1 yr., unless after 4 weeks notice in the Official Gazette and a local paper, by public competition and after living security—then it may be granted or 10 yrs or less. To obtain a billiard table license, the applicant must give security himself and two sureties in [unclear: ½] 200 each, that no apprentice, schoolboy or servant shall play upon it, or any other person, for money.